Smalltalk

The Early History Of Smalltalk

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Small talk acts like social glue – here’s how to get better at it

Maybe think of small talk as a technology: a human invention for accomplishing social goals.

The small web is beautiful

A vision for the "small web", small software, and small architectures.

fx - Tiny, open, native coding agent

Tiny, open, native coding agent. A minimal CLI written in Zig, optimized for research and embeddability as part of larger systems.

smallnet

Smallnet or SmolNet (also known as Small/Smol Internet/Web, etc.) is a movement of small-scale Internet networking that emphasizes the smallness of the servers (including low system requirements) as well as that of the user communities. It can be regarded as a counter-movement to the centralization and bloatedness of WWW.

Unorthodocs: Abandon your DVCS and Return to Sanity - bitquabit

I’ve pretty much always been a DVCS apologist. I know quite a few people who’ve been using DVCSes since Mercurial and Git, and a few who go back to BitKeeper, but I can totally out-hipster you. I was there for Monotone. I actually remember struggling to grok tla, and being happy that someone took the time to write baz. I remember the promise and the failure that was Darcs. I remember thinking that even Darcs was comically primitive, because it was nothing but a poor imitation of Smalltalk DVCSes like Monticello, themselves mere iterative improvements on classic Smalltalk changesets.[1]

Xerox Cedar "Viewers Window Package" 1987

I just want to add a little bit about the Xerox Cedar "Viewers Window Package" environment. Cedar is a programming language based on Mesa, with some similarities to Smalltalk.

Why the fuss about conversational programming?

First, there isn’t much fuss … yet. But there will be.

Tiny Tool Town 🏘️

A delightful showcase for free, fun & open source tiny tools. Stupid-delightful software made with love.

Tinycast — a tiny, native macOS launcher

Tinycast is a tiny, fully native macOS launcher: fuzzy app search, an inline calculator, clipboard history, snippets, notes, window management and global hotkeys, with no Electron, no account and no telemetry.

The AT Protocol's interesting design - LittleBit

Bluesky's backend was made to be more than a social network

Manifesto for Minimalist Software Engineers

Minifesto for Minimalist Software Engineers

MiniMax-Intelligence with everyone

MiniMax is a leading global technology company and one of the pioneers of large language models (LLMs) in Asia. Our mission is to build a world where intelligence thrives with everyone.

What is the Small Web?

Updated June 19th, 2023 Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. But that doesn’t mean you can’t watch it! You can download Small Is Beautiful #23 directly, and watch it with your favourite video player. Small Is Beautiful (Oct, 2022): What is the Small Web and why do we need it? Today, I want to introduce you to a concept – and a vision for the future of our species in the digital and networked age – that I’ve spoken about for a while but never specifically written about: